Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. (Isaac Asimov)

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Isaac Asimov

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